My Fight for Marriage Equality
A Faith Voice That Speaks For Me
This post comes from Joanna Blotner, Religion and Faith Program Coordinator at the Human Rights Campaign. She is a former Eisendrath Legislative Assistant.
12 Rituals You May See at a Jewish Wedding
Equality and Why We Fight
Why I Camped Out at 2:30 AM to Watch Supreme Court Oral Arguments
Monday, June 25th, 1:00 AM
My alarm disrupts the silence, and in my sleepy, disoriented stupor I think it must be a mistake.
The Comedown
There is pleasure to be had in a work of fiction whose scope spans two generations. Characters are introduced or shown in flashbacks as children, and we see how they fulfill – or don’t – the expectations placed on them by their parents, or how traumas they experience later come to bear. In The Comedown (Henry Holt) – as in Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi’s recent epic of the African diaspora, or Amy Tan’s classic The Joy Luck Club – Rebekah Frumkin explores the ways in which choices made by parents echo through children and grandchildren for decades
All of Life's Ninths of Av
I have a story to tell you. It’s about a tiny bird. But I’ll come back to that.
They Needed Parents and We Needed Children
It was not so easy to become a family. At first, we assumed that like so many other Jewish couples, we would bring home a baby girl from China. We soon learned that no foreign country allows openly gay people to adopt internationally.
Conversion: Who is the Gate Keeper
I just had the privilege of representing the Reform movement on a panel "Conversion: Who Is the Gate Keeper of the Jewish Nation" at the Israeli President's Conference in Jerusalem, Facing Tomorrow. These are my opening remarks: